Straight Talk with Mark Jobe

God did not create us because he was lonely. God is self-sufficient. Never experiences loneliness in his life. He’s self-contained, but he has revealed himself to us as the great I am.

The Christian life was never meant to be lived in the power of the flesh. You can only live the teachings of Jesus in the power of the Spirit.

Some of you when you were younger had images of what God was calling you to do and you attempted them and you failed at them and you’ve long since put them aside, but it just may be that God revives the dreams and visions of your past when you’re ready to handle them.

Sometimes we have a sense of our calling but we don’t have the character and the maturity to handle the calling that God is leading us toward.

You have a territory that God has called you to invade. And that territory is your workplace. That territory is your neighborhood. That territory is your family. That territory, whatever place that God has placed you in, God wants you to take His presence and an essence, His essence to that place.

I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for your life. And I believe that God’s involved in your life. And I believe that the Christianity that we’re trying to get you to engage in is not a Christianity that’s lived out in the four walls of a church.

If we don’t understand what God has said about us, then oftentimes we embrace religion and we try to prove in religion that we are really truly faithful followers of God.

When my value depends on what other people say and think about me, then I’m going to chase after that recognition and I’m going to put that above truth.

Everyday, the average person, is exposed to 3,500 advertisements, magazines, audio-visual messages telling us that we need something else to make us happy. When you get the cars and the houses and the paycheck is fatter, when you start prospering. Don’t forget God. Don’t forget Him.

Don’t experience the temptation of trying to measure people by what they have and how they dress and what car they drive and what house they live in.